#1Sports
Dwight King
born 1989Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan
13 famous people were born in Meadow Lake, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey player Dwight King. Behind the leader come Jeff Friesen and Blake Comeau. Most were born since 1970: 7 of them. Half or more of the towns in Saskatchewan have no one on record, but this one has 22.9 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dwight King
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1943
Joe Handley
Youngest
1989
Dwight King
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Meadow Lake’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Meadow Lake’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 5 people born in that decade.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Meadow Lake is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.6 times the usual share.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Meadow Lake
The three best known are all athletes.
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#2Sports
Jeff Friesen
born 1976Canadian ice hockey player
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Blake Comeau
born 1986Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Meadow Lake
A further 10 follow, born between 1943 and 1984.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Meadow Lake
Who is the most famous person from Meadow Lake?
The top name is Dwight King (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Jeff Friesen and Blake Comeau.
How many famous people were born in Meadow Lake?
Wikidata counts 14 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Meadow Lake known for?
Here the share is 62%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Meadow Lake?
Joe Handley, born in 1943. The youngest on the list was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Meadow Lake?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Meadow Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Dwight King: Sarah Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Friesen: JamesTeterenko, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blake Comeau: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- D. J. King: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Yablonski: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Mirasty: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Handley: Patrick Kane, CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Siklenka: Alex Micheu Photography from VILLACH, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sandra Semchuk: U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).